PPG completes its acquisition of Tikkurila
PPG has announced that it has completed its acquisition of all of the shares of Tikkurila tendered into PPG’s tender offer as of the expiration of the offer on June 4, 2021
A Cunning Plan!
Sir Tony Robinson (most famous for playing Blackadder’s sidekick – Baldrick!) gets advice from John Heath, a highly experienced and respected marine surveyor with over 40 years’ experience, on how to use a Cygnus 4+ thickness gauge
New powder coating
PPG has recently introduced PPG Coraflon Platinum fluoroethylene vinyl ether (FEVE) fluoropolymer powder coatings for architectural extrusions and sheet aluminium
What lies beneath
Brookes Bell has seen more and more of its skills developed in the cruise sector applied to the superyacht industry, as the team advises owners, captains, managers, designers, engineers and shipyards on newbuilds, rebuilds and refits. Here, Arron Jackaman, a Senior Inspection Engineer talks about Brookes Bell’s non-destructive testing (NDT) services for the superyacht industry.
Optimising measurement performance
All roads lead to Rome. In the case of tactile coating thickness measurement, that sentence could be adapted to read: all measurements lead to accurate readings. However, it is not that simple. Instead, it should be stated that there is at least one road that leads to Rome – but only if you use a reliable measuring method and device relevant to the application, explains Dr Martin Leibfritz, CEO of Helmut Fischer Global.